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...prudent qualification, given that each night he was raising millions of dollars at party fund raisers from well-off contributors.) The line that came to him most naturally was that he and the majority in Congress have been searching for "common ground'' that extremists want to abandon...
...show's penultimate song, "Ruby Tuesday," Faithfull hopped about the stage, strutting and shimmying with abandon. No wonder she fidgeted at times during the first act. It was a prologue of innocence lost that required restraint. The second act was an exercise in reclaiming hedonism...
...neighbor Natalya (Nada Despotovich), whom he wishes to wed. The anxious and particular Lomov succeeds unexpectedly with Natalya's father in asking for her hand, but soon everything goes terribly wrong when Lomov falls into a pointless territorial dispute with Natalya before he can propose. As he refuses to abandon principle for pragmatism, the argument degenerates...
...testify a second time. Even without telling the jurors that Fuhrman had invoked the Fifth Amendment, calling attention to his absence could further raise their suspicion of him. Prosecutor Marcia Clark appealed the ruling and, in a surprise decision, the Second District Court of Appeals ordered Ito to abandon his proposed instructions. Now it is unclear whether the defense will continue fighting to have Ito make some reference to Fuhrman. Still, the prosecution is scrambling. "The prosecution's case has been reduced to a pile of rubble," says former L.A. district attorney Ira Reiner. "They have nothing less...
...Baker and Whiting are not headed for the entrance. They will abandon their Zodiac four or five miles out at sea and negotiate the reef with the kayaks. Reaching land, they will hide the kayaks and climb both seawalls with grappling hooks. With luck they will have a day or so for mischief before they are caught. The men plan to tag Mururoa's buildings with Greenpeace stickers and graffiti, slip notes to some of the press people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot...